[PATCH 5/5] hvc_console: Fix race between hvc_close and hvc_remove

John Kacur jkacur at redhat.com
Fri Jun 11 23:13:49 EST 2010


----- "Stephen Rothwell" <sfr at canb.auug.org.au> wrote:

> Hi John,
> 
> On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 13:03:00 +0200 John Kacur <jkacur at redhat.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > From: Amit Shah <amit.shah at redhat.com>
> > 
> > Alan pointed out a race in the code where hvc_remove is invoked.
> The
> > recent virtio_console work is the first user of hvc_remove().
> 
> I am not sure where this comes from (linuxppc-dev only got 5/5) but
> this
> patch was applied to Linus' tree quite some time age (and fixed since
> then).
> 

Thanks for responding Stephen.

I was just listing patches that Thomas could potentially include
in the real-time kernel which is currently based on 2.6.33.5

I hadn't intended for git-send-email to cc everyone, but it
automatically included authors. sigh. I'll make sure to suppress that
next time.

John


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